Cunning Rhetoric
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever an opponent attacks you and/or one or more planeswalkers you control, exile the top card of that player's library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2021-04-16
You'll still pay all costs for a spell cast this way, including additional costs. You may also pay alternative costs if any are available.
- 2021-04-16
You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions for the exiled card. If it's a land, you can't play it unless you have land plays available.
- 2021-04-16
If you play a card this way, it leaves exile and becomes a new object. If it returns to exile later in the turn, you can't play it again.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Cunning Rhetoric, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glarb, Calamity's Augur | 1 | 0 | — |
| Wick, the Whorled Mind | 1 | 0 | — |
| Xanathar, Guild Kingpin | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Dimir 1 deck
- Sultai 1 deck
- Grixis 1 deck
Cunning Rhetoric price history
The Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander #129 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2026 | $3.43 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $3.43 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $3.56 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $3.53 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $3.59 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $3.65 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $3.64 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $3.61 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $3.71 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $3.70 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $3.60 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $3.49 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $3.44 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $3.35 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $3.44 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $3.41 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $3.49 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Cunning Rhetoric
4 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander
- Normal
- $3.43
- Normal
- $3.67
Extended Art
- Normal
- $4.71
- Normal
- $2.43
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Cunning Rhetoric. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
